My gf's friend's husband, who is an idiot, wanted to name their son either Neo, after the guy in the Matrix, or Nike, after the shoes he likes to run in, but pronounced to rhyme with Mike.

A lot of Spanish names are just odd to me when I translate them into English: Dolores (Pains), Pilar (Pillar), and combos like Maria Jose (Mary Joseph). I'm sure some English names sound weird when translated, too.

Obligatory urban legend: I heard about a woman who gave birth and overheard the nurses saying a word which was so beautiful that she insisted on giving the child the name: Placentia.

I dated a girl for a while that was a NNICU nurse. She said a little girl's mother saw "female" written on the side of those little tub things they keep the premature babies in and decided to call the girl "Female," pronounced Fuh-mahl-ee. I couldn't make this up.